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Example sentences for "nowise"

Lexicographically close words:
nowhar; nowhars; nowhead; nowhere; nowheres; nown; nowne; nows; nowt; nowther
  1. Louis might, on this day, have regained all hearts; but he was in nowise the man required for such times.

  2. At first she was nowise startled, thinking only that Vera and General Elio were nearer than had been represented.

  3. But this the little girl would in nowise permit.

  4. Nevertheless when a man boasted in his presence of the favours of a woman, he thought him a fool and a braggart--and was in general nowise backward in telling him so.

  5. The Englishman had rooted his heels to the pavement and squared his hands by his sides as one who would in nowise be dislodged from his resolve.

  6. The presence of a duenna was nowise necessary to the opening of her lips, which last had also sometimes been silenced without the intervention of a chaperon.

  7. Therefore it is nowise lawful to be angry.

  8. And since nowise ought one to sin, if the priest be unwilling to baptize without being paid, one must act as though there were no priest available for the baptism.

  9. Concupiscence is stated to be without reason, not as though it destroyed altogether the judgment of reason, but because nowise does it follow the judgment of reason: and for this reason it is more disgraceful.

  10. Although not all who have faith understand fully the things that are proposed to be believed, yet they understand that they ought to believe them, and that they ought nowise to deviate from them.

  11. But to assert that priests nowise differ from bishops is reckoned by Augustine among heretical doctrines (De Heres.

  12. Moreover some of His effects are such that they can nowise be contrary to the human will, since to be, to live, to understand, which are effects of God, are desirable and lovable to all.

  13. According to the opinion of Stoics, who held temporal goods not to be man's goods, it follows in consequence that temporal evils are not man's evils, and that therefore they are nowise to be feared.

  14. Therefore it is nowise lawful to curse an irrational creature.

  15. Therefore truth is nowise a part of justice.

  16. Secondly, in order to be instructed as to what is God's pleasure in some particular matter; and this nowise comes under the head of temptation of God.

  17. J] This night, however, the Doctor is intent on a new book nowise to his mind.

  18. These trifling drawbacks, however, in nowise detracted from the hospitality offered.

  19. The Alliance, concluded in 1913, for the purpose of establishing an equilibrium of forces between the Balkan States, had a purely Balkan character and nowise applied to a general conflagration.

  20. That Orestes should undertake to destroy Aegisthus is nowise singular, and seems scarcely to merit such marked notice in the tragical annals of the world.

  21. Hence an idea has been formed of simple and natural pathos, which consists in exclamations destitute of imagery and nowise elevated above every-day life.

  22. What is allowed to remain after this polishing process will always exhibit a striking incongruity with that which is new- modelled, and to change the whole is either impossible, or in nowise preferable to a new invention.

  23. I am nowise certain that ye thought your ill-doing an evil.

  24. Swear to me, then, that if upon the fatal hill I do save you your life and your estates, you will nowise work the undoing of the Church in time to come.

  25. He had bestowed honour and wealth upon him in his service, and in return for all this the other sought his sister in marriage, a thing which was in nowise fitting for him to do.

  26. Surely this is Zeus, or Apollo of the Silver Bow, or Poseidon; for he is nowise like mortal man, but like the Gods who have mansions in Olympus.

  27. So intent that my entrance for a match in nowise disturbed them; so utterly intent that they never saw what I saw at once,--Frank Amory standing at the door.

  28. I told him I thought the said Caleb was a vain, talking man, but nowise of a wizard.

  29. He was a deliverer, but nowise fitted to exercise high office in the name of God.

  30. And yet it is very common to ascribe to God what is nowise His doing.

  31. It is nowise our business to-night to criticise them.

  32. In combination it may be used somewhat bright, if it be warm and tend towards red; but the best and most characteristic shade of purple is nowise bright, but tends towards russet.

  33. The choir is uninteresting; the carving of its stalls and organs in nowise comparing with the "silleria" of Seville or Burgos.

  34. Servants of the Church of various degrees are standing on one side with expressions of beatitude nowise clouded by the fate of the miserable reprobates on the other.

  35. He would have been a little shocked, a little sorry perhaps, but nowise ashamed.

  36. That the bastard Malcolm, or the ignorant and indeed fallen fisher-girl Lizzy, should judge differently, nowise troubled him: what could they know about the rights and wrongs of business?

  37. Her presence was in nowise necessary, he said; he would undertake everything, and within three quarters of an hour she would find her patients in her ward at the hospital.

  38. In a word, she appeared to have entered the common path, and in nowise resembled the intensely passionate female worshippers of the Christ.

  39. All minds were occupied during the winter in forming projects of capturing that town, which were entirely chimerical, void of common sense, and nowise practicable.

  40. Then he told his tidings to the king his father, and he again to the queen, and she for her part bids him get him gone from the realm, and made as if she would in nowise see him.

  41. Sigurd answered, "Such as thy redes are I will nowise do after them; nay, I will ride now to thy lair and take to me that great treasure of thy kin.

  42. So he took all the gold and laid it in two great chests, and set them on the horse Grani, and took the reins of him, but nowise will he stir, neither will he abide smiting.

  43. Gudrun says, "Nowise good are these dreams, yet shall they come to pass; surely thy sons are nigh to death, and many heavy things shall fall upon us.

  44. Brynhild answers, "Nowise will I hide from thee that I deem no good of Grimhild.

  45. Said Brynhild, "Such words may nowise be spoken, nor will I have two kings in one hall; I will lay my life down rather than beguile Gunnar the King.

  46. As for me I am nowise strong like him to ward mine own; verily to the end of my days {*} shall I be a weakling and all unskilled in prowess.

  47. Then godlike Theoclymenus answered him: 'Eurymachus, in nowise do I seek guides of thee to send me on my way.

  48. I marvel to see how thou hast drunk of this charm, and wast nowise subdued.

  49. Now Athene would in nowise suffer the lordly wooers to abstain from biting scorn, that the pain might sink yet the deeper into the heart of Odysseus, son of Laertes.

  50. The gods nowise dishonour thee; hard would it be to assail with dishonour our eldest and our best.

  51. It is easily known, and a young child could be thy guide, for nowise like it are builded the houses of the Phaeacians, so goodly is the palace of the hero Alcinous.

  52. For even thither had Odysseus gone on his swift ship to seek a deadly drug, that he might have wherewithal to smear his bronze-shod arrows: but Ilus would in nowise give it to him, for he had in awe the everliving gods.

  53. For in nowise do I deem that thou camest hither by land.

  54. In nowise did I miss my mark, nor was I wearied with long bending of the bow.

  55. Say, on what manner of ship didst thou come, and how did sailors bring thee to Ithaca, and who did they avow themselves to be, for in nowise do I deem that thou camest hither by land.

  56. For I too have a brother dead, nowise the meanest of the Argives, and thou art like to have known him, for as for me I never encountered him, never beheld him.


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    Other words:
    never; nohow; noway; nowise; scarcely